What repealing Obamacare mandate would mean for Maine
By requiring all Americans -- even healthy young adults -- to be insured, the mandate balances out the expense of covering older, sicker people.
Repeal would not directly affect the availability of premium subsidies available to low- and middle-income individuals through the ACA. However, the nonpartisan
In
"Fewer people will have coverage, and those who have coverage will face higher and higher premiums," said
For millions of Americans, including tens of thousands of Mainers, the ACA has made health insurance more affordable. Particularly for those who are self-employed and others who don't have access to an employer-based plan, the ACA has brought health coverage within their financial reach--in some cases, for the first time.
In 2017, some 79,400 Mainers were covered by individual plans purchased on the state's insurance marketplace. That an ACA provision that allows consumers to make apples-to-apples comparisons between available plans. The majority of the plans purchased in
In 2015, the most recent year for which information is available, 38,560 taxpayers in
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